I broke my KMC10sl chain. I believe the reason why it broke is because I had to remove it, and I used a chain tool instead of unhooking the Q link. How do you unhook the q link? Thats the way to remove the chain it seems.

Kind of tricky - the hard part is getting needlenose pliers that will allow you to compress the link at the master. You also have to squeeze the link with your fingers on the flat section to unlock it and then use the pliers to bring the together. It's a little bit of a pain, they actually make some pliers that hug the link while you press with your fingers. Sorry, it's kind of hard to explain without pictures.

edit - just saw the pictures, knock out that bad link with your chain tool and re-attach it with another missing link, you should be good to go.

Last edited by surfsjp on Tue Jul 03, 2012 5:13 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I ground the sides down enough to fit between the side plates, then ground a grove in each nose to allow it to grip round the rollersThey work great on 10 speed i`ve not tried them on 11s yet but I cant see why not

Im also using quick links and I have not had problems just using my hands. I normally remove tension from the chain (do it when i have the backwheel of or drop the chain of the front). It also helps if the link is clean. Then just kinda push both on the link next to the q link. Just pay attention to the part of the q link that moves toward your hands

Just gotta have a soft touch I use 9sp and 10sp links on several bikes and can always open and close them by hand. Just release a bit of tension and sweet talk them apart (ie. lightly push together from the side of the plates with the pin fixed to them. That is, if each part of the replaceable link is an 'L', push from the corner of the 'L' to the corner of the other 'L'. If it is hard you are doing something wrong.)

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